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TES" IN THE nc 3 ® MA N & & t) The previous @vening she had posted a few lines to the Chase, announcing her safe arrival; she might therefore postâ€" c::'hcr next letter for twentyâ€"four But this time, her refussl to ratify her nfi'm-‘ Y lover, she quivered at the idea of the pain and mortification she had inflieted. Mona threw herself into an armâ€"chair and tried to think what was best to do. What pressed most upon her mind was the painful necessity of communicating with Lady Mary. She ought not to be leit in ignorance of her intentions, but would it not be well to hear first what Lu’lti‘a Waring would say? Yes, she would wa The fire burning, the hearth swept, and a few tidying touches bestowed on the room made a vast improvement. es "The fire‘s gone out?" she repeated, in a hi$h<pitched tone. "I dare say madame thinks coals‘ll light of theirselyes; she just pitches them on, whether there is a spark alive or not. I‘ll fetch a few sticks, miss." i i t Debrisa The t tured w spotless the ti t} able "And how did you sleep, dear * "Oh, well; too well!" exclaimed Mona. "Well, stay where you are. I‘ll bring you a cup of coffee and a bit of toast, for I have a long, busy day before me. I go to Mrs. Ardel!‘s grand establishment first, over at Kensington. I am there for four mortal hours, then 1 get a nit of food and give two private lessons in the same neighborhood, so I am obliged nes is business." "Of course it is; do not mind me!" "My good landlady will give you something to eat at her dinnerâ€"time, and we will have a cozy tea together when 1 come in." "Thark you, Deb." "You see I have taken your advice, and changed my rooms. I was just ready in time for you, my lamb; the front room is better for a sitting room." She hurried away, and returned sooner than Mona could {ave expected, with a fragrant cup of cafe au lait and a slice of buttered toast. consc10t where s moving ing Mm that lac behind â€" cony closs 1 The only members of the family who had accepted Mrs. Newburgh‘s grandâ€" daughter frankly and cordially were Sir Robert and Lady Mary Everard. ‘the rest looked on her as an interloper, an offshoot tainted by an admixture â€"of blood that was anything but blue. _ Of this she was but dimly conscious. While under her grandmother‘s wing, she had ben received with decent evility; now, ahe felt keenly that she was about to alâ€" lenate the only real friends she possessâ€" edâ€"to sink from the level of the Newâ€" burgh traditions to that of struggling, almost adventurous, nobodies. Â¥Yet she did not regret the desperate step she had taken. Why, at her age, should she link herself for a long life to a thralidom that would irk her soul? Youth dsâ€" mands so much. It takes the friction of a lifeâ€"time to teach moderation and the wisdom of compromise. 1 C noher mlhes aÂ¥eatme * . e y C1 S1ov l exe n/te Re M EXCEAEY : floor was a steady elderly city clerk, of | hoped he would. It : remarkable punctuality and ° precisior.| th.ow off his grief. Still the tone of the homely dwelling severely ; she dreaded was new to Mona, who had been accusâ€"| surely he would be tc tomed to the aristoreratic, if narrow, |ed to come in person nicety of her grandmother‘s house, or | that possibility was un the distinction of her relatives‘ establishâ€" | _ The dreary hours : ments. slowlv vat fack @LL _ Or "SALADA" The lodgerA who occupied NO CEYLON NATURAL GREEN TEA ut up in sealed lead packets to p many excellent qualities 40c, 50c and 60¢ per pound. By al MIGMEST aAwaARD st. LOUIS. 10n4 Zâ€"none of the other beils wili oodâ€"bye, dear." dressed slowlry, and went into ing room. It was a stormy, wet 1e rain beat against the one large dow which lighted it, and which ver a small square of grass, with ~bed in the middle, and a couple next the railings, that divi(red the street. It was a fairly well ont garden, but at the present ing strewn with dead leaves and with rain, it was not a cheerful . The fire had been hastily with coal, and had succumbed mad. The table cover wns crookâ€" ry irregular pile of newspapers, programmes of concerts, overâ€" n oceasional table; but the furâ€" vas good and in good order, ‘xtremely mixed as to style and some of it, in fact, was Mm«. ‘s, and some her landlady‘s. andâ€"bell evoked a tall, hardâ€"feaâ€" man, with thick grizzled hair, a cap, and a dark print dress. _ »if now, make* yourself comfortâ€" ir; there are some books and a amily Horalds‘ in the next room; e splendid stories in them, they ur hair stand on end, and forget . Take the handâ€"bell it you want â€"none of the other bells will 11 she put in her head with 1 & reereenenenemenmmmmmmmmrmmmmene adulteration or coloring matter impurities of any kind in the upper ; He would be awfully "Xo!" interrupted Waring, with a digâ€" nity of which she did not imagine him eapable, "You cannot endure me! I do not want a victim! I love you too well for that. But, ah, Mona, it is an agony to think you will have to face the roughâ€" ness of life! Whether you love me or notâ€"whether you desert me or notâ€"I would gladly gire you half I possess to shield you from all you dare to face. Promise you will let me help you if you need helpâ€"promise, Mona!" k "surely Heaven has cursed you with nmet{iu of a woman heart, or you would not feel so tenderly and generousâ€" "No one will ever be so fair and good as you seem to me; and as you reject me, how am I to believe any one will love me? You had every reason to love me, yet you could not." "Love cannot reason." "Then you know what love is?" said Waring, sharply. "There is something still in your heart which you will not speak out! Ah, Mona! why can I not lease you? Why are you so cruel? You Eave destroyed my life!" There was such passionate des'Pair in his voice that _ Mona was profoundly moved. That she had eruelly, selfish]i wronged him was borne in upon her wit constraining force. She felt guilty, culpâ€" able, to the last degree; and wavering in her resolutionâ€"wishing, is possible, to do the right thing, she stammered: "Ifâ€"if you think it worth acceptinf, I will retract that letter, andiâ€"and do my best." 6 aefesay ) had faith in your promise to try and love me; and, after all, you were only sacrificing yourself to maintain your grandmotherâ€"a sacrifice you gladly esâ€" eape as soon as you can! _ You have broken yonr contract!" "You are justly angry. I eannot defend myself. But do you not think you will happier with some woman fairer and better than I am, who will love you heartily, ardâ€"" me aside when you think you can do without me! And I love you so! I thought I was going straight to heaven when you promised to be my wife! I â€"what, indeed, I blushed to writeâ€"that my grandmother‘s wish, her overpowerâ€" ing need, induced me to consent to what, otharwise, I should not have accepted." "I understand. Then, Mona, you have treated me very badly. You took me when I was necessary to you; you throw me aside when you think you can do without me! And I love you so! I thought I was going straight to heaven "And I am, Mr. Waring! There is not a man in existence whom I would acâ€" cept at this moment. But"â€"she wos growing calmer under the desperate neâ€" cessity of explanationâ€""I also told you "We agreed to get over that difficulty. I hoped to win your affection if you were quite free from any other attachâ€" ment." "You have deserved nothing but good and gratitude from me," faltered Mona. sinking into a chair, for she felt her limbs unable to support her. "Then why do you desert me?" "I told you in my letterâ€"the whole truth; I cannot love you as a wife ought to love." _"Do you seriously mean what you have written here?" he asked, in a t{ick, unâ€" steady voice, as he drew forth and openâ€" ed her letter. "Yes," she said; "I do." "Then I have a right to ask the reason of this sudden change. What have I done to deserve it ?" the "Surely," she cried, greatly touchedâ€" or important to be a suitable match for his exâ€"ward. He would assist to rouse Waring‘s wrath against her, and would not let him lower himself by a personal interview. She could hardly expect a letter from Waring till the next day. He was stayâ€" ingâ€"not very far away, in Hampshireâ€" with the gentleman who had been his guardian, and for whom he had a great regard. This man wasâ€"Mona felt, rathâ€" er than knewâ€"opposed to his marriage with herself. She was convinced that he considered her not sufficiently well off seep SE CCCE JCE Ap CCuH DWE y that possibility was unspeakably terrible. The dreary hours went slowly byâ€" slowly, yet fast. She could not form any conception of what her future might be. Her powers of imagination, of conjecâ€" ture, paused, paralyzed, before the brisâ€" tling difficulties of the present. By all grocers. . LOUIS, 1904 ve awiully angry. Indeed, she would. It might help him to his grief. Me would write she dreaded his letterâ€"but would be too bitterly offendâ€" to preserve its person to reproach her This assurance was some stay to faintness is sometimes observed to overâ€" Mona. She was very lowâ€"she had brer come persons upon their entrance into a "Well, and I don‘t wonder you are frightened to see him! He will be like a raging lionâ€"small blame to him! There, gon’t turn so white. I am a bit of a wild beast myself to speak so harsh to a bit of a girl like you! If I did not dread a hard, povertyâ€"stricken life for| you, I wouldn‘t be so mad. God knows, if my own baby girl had lived, I couldn‘t lover her better than I do you! Yes, I will stay by you, My lamb. It will be a tolerably free day toâ€"morrow. T‘li write and put off my early lessons, for you may be sure he will come up hot foot the first thing in the morning to row us ent of the place." ‘He will certainty be here toâ€"morrow. Could you manage to stay at home, dear, dear Deb?" she said, imploringly. In due time it was answered, in rather a distracted fashion, by Lady Mary. She said she thought dear Mona must be unâ€" der the influence of temporary insanity; that Sir Robert was going up to London to see what was really the matter; and that she prayed Heaven there might not be any secret mischief at the bottom of this unfortunate affair. The idea of facing Sir Robert ailone was too much for poor Mona. "Enlightened as she probably is by the knowledge of another world, she would, no doubt, approve of what I have done." "It would be queer knowledge!" For the rest of the evening Mme. Deâ€" brisay kept silence, or nearly complete silence, which was, of course, pain and grief to herâ€"while Mona finished and dispatched her letter. "I tell you what. My hand is just itching to box your ears, though it will never put you from me. If I only knew the truth. You are keeping back someâ€" thingâ€"I know you are. Ah! and Sir Robert Everard. Won‘t he be in the fury, and Lady Mary. MWell, well! I‘ve had many & sore disappointment; but I think this is about the worst. If your poor dear grandmamma could look from her graveâ€"I mean down from _ heavenâ€"I wonder what she would say!" % "It is a downright tempting of Proviâ€" dence. Ah! Mona, you‘ll rue the day yet. And to make me post that letter! Ahb, if I had known what was in it, Td have tornm it into smithereens before your face. What wiil become of vyou now vyou. "But he did not ask me, dear Deb. He very properly said he did not want a victim, I think more highly of him than I ever did before; but I am sure I have done right in acting as I have, and he will thank me vet!‘ drowned in sorrow, you‘d have given way. How had you the heart to refuse him again ?" _ She was too deeply affected for speech. She pushed back her chair from the table, and sat a silent image of gricf. "And is there nothing to be done!" she epaculated. "Dieu des Dieux! It "I am ttxite done up!" she cried. "Such vile weather! I will change my boots, and be with you in a minute. But I have a new pupil, so my Wednesday will be well filled at Kensington. We‘ll talk over everything at tea." The kindly woman‘s horror and amazeâ€" ment when Mona disclosed the dreadful fact that Waring had come to answer her letter in person, and had gone away in sorrow and indignation, can be better imagined than described. She did not dream of the enormous recuperative powers which youth posâ€" sesses. Still it was a bitter blow, that sent her reeling back frim the threshold of life, to recover as best she could her vanished hopes of truth and tenderness â€"respectful love, everlasting constancy. She had not completed her difficult letter, when Mme. Debrisay came in. _ What a task it was! _ How worthâ€" less and ungrateful her own conduct seemed to her as she strove to explain it and excuse herself! _ How insuffiâ€" cient, how puerile her objections must seen to those who had not the key to the puzzle!â€"that key none should ever get. She knew that had she never jnet Lisle, had she been heartâ€"whole, she might have grown to like Waring suffiâ€" cently well to be happy. But Lisle had liftedya corner of the veil which hides the mysteries of life from young eyes, and given her a glimpse of human pasâ€" sion and the enchantment of it; now nothing less glowing could satisfy herâ€" all else was tame and weak. And this hero whom she had invested with all the attributes of noblest manhood, strength and tenderness, the masterful decision of a fine intellect, the gentleâ€" ness of a knightâ€"errant, he had shown himself to her in his true colors, and swept away the illusions which had gnthored round his image in her mind orever. She said truly there was not a vestige of love in her heart for any man, nor did she believe she could ever believe in another. She sat long quite still, thinking painâ€" fully, confusedly. Then she nerved herâ€" self to seek her writing materials, and begin aletter to Lady Mary. "He will forget me soon," she told herâ€" self. "Toâ€"day his bearing was dignified and earnest, his feelings were decply movedâ€"toâ€"morrow his eye will be caught by some one of the many charming girls he meets, and he will be far happier than with one whose heart is dead, like mine." _ Yet she knew that had she renewed,| or kept to the engagement, she would be j miserable. > It pained her infinitely to think that his opinion of her had been loweredâ€" that she had been so faithless to her promise. it back!" x He thrust it on his finger. "Then it is all over between us!" he said, passionately; "all quite over! Perâ€" haps it is better so. It would have broken my heart to try in vain to win your love; and, dear as you are, I would not have you without it. Goodâ€"bye, Mona! you have taught me how unlovable I am; yet I might have made you happy." With a slight despairing gesture of the hand he turned and left her. Left her in a state of terrible agitaâ€" tion and doubt. She did not expect to be so completely routed, so utterly ashamed. He was stronger and nobler than she thou.iht. She had broken with him,. and she had lost him. She had offered to retract, and he had rejected her. "Excopt yours, dear friend." ly for one who has pained and wounded Kou! I feel your superiority, and 1 umbly beg your forgiveness. I will always think of you as a true gentleâ€" man. May you find greater happiness than I could bestow. Hereâ€"take this back!" "Pray keep it," he said, as she held out her engagement ring of diamonds. _ "I cannot, Mr. Waring; you must take Everyore‘s hand will be against Odors, whether agrecable or disagreeâ€" able, are not causes of disease in the sense gencrally taken, says the Medical Record. They may disorder certain functions by impairing norvous energy, by diminishing wholesome respiration, and thus creating a predisposition to atâ€" tack by disease. And yet, strange as it w . engers, collectors of night soil or garbage, and laborers in slaughâ€" ter houses or tanneries do not seem to be particularly affected in consequence of inhaling the odors so prevalent in the vicinity of their labors. We are familiar with the assertion that emanations arising from manure act amtism. Severe or alternate. Odors will also produce a decided impression at times upon the digestive aparatus. Among the sympâ€" toms arising in the latter condition are pausea, voimniting, diarrhoea, and excesâ€" sinve salivation. Nauscea is more comâ€" mon, this symptom being excited by stenches, as well as odors from certain flowers or plants. 4: x Physicians Attempt to Treat Diseases by Working on Olfactories. It has long been known that certain odoriferous exhalations can exert a powâ€" crful influence on particularly susceptâ€" ible individuals, even producing markâ€" ed nervous disturpances. _ It has been shown that perfumes or odors produce nervous and respiratory reflexes, as well as urticaria and vertigo. These manifesâ€" tations are rarely single, but combined When buying these pills see that the full name, Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills for Pale People is printed on the wrapper around the box. You can get the pills from any medicine dealer or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from the Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockâ€" ville, Ont A spring medicine seems to be a necesâ€" sity. Nature demands it as an aid to enriching the blood and carrying off the impurities that have been accumulated during the indoor life of the winter months. Thousands of people, recognizâ€" ing the necessity for a spring medicine, dose themselves with harsh, griping purâ€" gatives. This is a mistake. Ask any doctor, and he will tell you that the use of purgative medicines weakens the sysâ€" tem and cannot possibly cure disease. In the spring the system needs building up â€"purgatives weaken. The blood should be made rich, red and pureâ€"purgatives cannot do this. What is needed is a tonic, and the best tonic medical science has yet devised is Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills. Every dose of this medicine actualâ€" ly makes new, rich blood, and the new blood strengthens every organ and every part of the body. That is why these pills banish pimples and unsightly skin erupâ€" tions. That is why they cure headaches and backaches, rheumatism and neuralâ€" gia, and a host of other troubles that come from poor, watery blood. That is why the men and women who use Dr. Wiiiiams‘ Pink Pills eat well and sleep well, and feel active and strong. Mrs. Albert E. Sampson, L‘Ardoise, N. S., says: "I have used Dr. Williams‘ Pink Pills with the greatest benefit. I know of no medicine that can equal them in building up people who are weak or run down." i6 e es Many People Weaken Their System by Dosing With Purgative Medicines. "No, Sir Robert, I have been making up my mind to break off my engageâ€" ment ever since my grandmother died," she said, gaining courage when absoluteâ€" ly under fire. "What the deuce is the meaning of your extraordinary conduct, Mona. Have you quite lost your senses?" He came abruptly into the room, and without a word of greeting, exclagnedâ€" WA i ar gucocle mds ds & As madame had anticipated, Sir Robâ€" ert came between eleven and twelve. A glance at his broad, usually good humâ€" ored face, showed how great was the wrath he had accumulated. Mme. Debrisay put on her best black gilk dress, and a pretty little morning cap of Brussels lace, in honor of the occasion; and Mona swept away the confused mass of papers into the bedâ€" room, and put the place in order, addâ€" ing a few Christmas roses and geranâ€" iums, which she had persuaded Mme. Debrisay to let her buy. She knew how revolted the orderly baronet would be by any untidiness or a sordid lod§ing house look, and she had a vague fear that he might take her from the asylum she had sought. It was almost too much for her, this waiting for what the morrow â€" should bring forth. She knew Sir Robert, though kind, was choleric, and, like all sensiâ€" tive creatures, she shrunk from rough words; she strove to strengthen herself by reflecting that she was the best judge of what was best for her own happinessâ€"that she had a right _ to decide for herselfâ€"that she was _ not bound to obey Sir Robert, though she hated to contradict him. for some time unable to eat, and her nerves had suffered severely from the shock of her grandmother‘s sudden death. It made Mme. Debrisay‘s soft heart ache to see how thin and white her pet pupil had grown, how she started and trembl‘;d at any sudden noise, and, above all, at her steady effort to be calm and helpful. It chases away that old tired feeling, and fills her with new life. SO DELICIOUS, TOO. ONLY ONE BESTâ€"BLUE RIBBON‘S IT. Blue Ribbon Ceéylon Tea A NEW WOMAN A SPRING DANGER. PERFUMES IN MEDICINES. (To be continued.) That‘s what any woman is after a hot cup of FRAGRANT _ ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO There is no telling when a medicine may be needed in homes where there are little ones. _ Therefore, the prudent mother will always keep a box of Baby‘s Own Tablets on hand. These Tablets promptly cure indigestion, colic, sour stomach, constipation, diarrhoea and teething troubles. They break up colds, prevent croup, expel worms, and give the child sound, natural sleep. Mothers have the gurantee of a Government analyst that these Tablets contain no opiate or poisonous soothing stuff. Mrs. J. C. Gildart, Prosser Brook, N. B., says: "Baby‘s Own Tablets act like magic when a little one is ill, and I would not feel safe without a box in the house." You can get Baby‘s Own Tablets from your medicine dealer or by mail at 25 cents a box from the Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co.. Brockville. Ont. line imitation of the cackling of the laying hens He then instailed t phonogruph in his own henhouse and started it going. The first day the hens were greatly amazed, but the second day they got down to business and ground out an egg every time the phonograph cackled. The hens have stopped cackâ€" ling themselves, however, and when the phonograph stops they stop laying and the originator of the idea has to sit in his coop all day long to keep the phonoâ€" «raph going. The Hens and the Phonograph. A Stockport poultry farmer has had great trouble of late because his hens were not producing the proper number of eggs. A nearby neighbor has a fine flock of hens which were working overâ€" time to provuce eggs. While hanging over the back fence listening to the triâ€" umphant cackle of his"neighbor‘s hens an idea struck the luckless owner of hens. He went into the house and brought out his phonograph, inserted a blank record, and succeeded in getting a fine imitation of the cackling of the 10. Put yourself in your employer‘s place and figure out what kind of an empioyee you would hire to get the most out of your business. Then set yourâ€" self to be that employee. There is no short,. easy road to sucâ€" cese, but it is well worth travelling.â€" Printer‘s Ink. 9. Do not shirk your work and be alâ€" ways thinking of the money side of the proposition. _ Give good value for the money you receive and you will be sure to succeed. 10. Put vourself in vour emnlover‘s 6. Be conscientious. Don‘t take too much interest in ball games, theatres, parties, etc., or you may find that you have not much time left to give to your work. Don‘t have a relative die too often. Funerals sometimes grow monâ€" otonous to an employer during the baseâ€" ball season or on matinee afternoons. 8. Do not let your thoughts be always woolâ€"gathering if you expect an increase of salary on payâ€"day. 5. Be checrful and willing. A sullen countenance is not pleasant to lowk upon either by an employer or a customer. Remember your pulling power with a customer is one of your assets. The reâ€" verse will be your loss. Be courteous, Do not thrust your own troubles and inharmony upon those around you. It is a poor investment. 7. Do not make the same mistake twice. 4. Do your work well toâ€"day, you won‘t have to do any of it over again toâ€"morrow. 3. Be prompt. Show that you have an interest in your work above a desire for an extra halfâ€"hour in bed in the mornâ€" ing. You can‘t come down a halfâ€"hour late exery morning and impress your employer with the idea that you are a wideâ€"awake, active man or woman with an interest in your work. 1. Take as much interest in your emâ€" ployer‘s business as if it were your own. 2. Do not expect to get all you can and give nothing. Do a little more work than is demanded. TEN RULES THAT LEAD TO SUCCESS who are employed in laboratories where perfumes are made or among growing tlowers are healthy to an extent exceed. ing those not so employed. As a result of further study and careful observaâ€" tion, it may be that we shall yet be able to utilize perfume in the treatment of certain complaints. Attempts have been made to utilize odors in theraupeutics. For instance, the odors of vanilla and heliotrope are credâ€" ited with possessing a soothing influence over persons subjected to attacks of nervousness. The use of toilet water in the form of spray will often restore those exhausted with the cares of busiâ€" noss, social or domestic duties. In the east the use of perfume is considered a purifier, though we look upon it merely as a luxury. _ It is asserted that those Snakeroot, or black cohosh, has a faint, disagrecable odor, which some times causes headaches and nausea. The odor from freshly ground coffee produces in some individuals a sickening sensaâ€" tion followed by nausea, and in rare inâ€" stances yomiting, but usually it is agreeâ€" able and appetizing. These few illustraâ€" tions will suffice to show the marked influence that may sometimes be exerted over the nervous system by certain odors. room in which tuberoses are kept. Headâ€" ache is often produced by the odors emâ€" anating from the honeysuckle, lily, rose of Sharon ar carnation. The odor of beâ€" tony, in flower, is said to have caused intoxication in those who gather it. The making of linseed decoctions, and the triturating of roses, pinks, walnuts, or colocynth are often accompanied by attacks of syncope. SAFEGUARD TNE CHILDREN. Jail for Reckless Chauffeurs. {Phil=<=‘â€"Lis Ledger.) Some accidents are unavoidable in this world busy with traffic. People will get under the wheels of the slowest gofig vehicle. The dray, as well as the motor car, has a record. Despits this fact, the truth remains that a person slain by m reckless automobilist generally is the victim of a worse, a grosser, a more heartless callousness tnan is the one who succumbs to the impact of the trolley. The simple and easy way to rid the highâ€" way of the peril that lies in the drunken or brainless direction of the swiftly movâ€" ing automobile is to treat the guilty chauffeur as the criminal he is, and to hold him and his accomplices on the charge of manslaughter at least, as well as responsible for all the material damâ€" age wrought. _ _ _ _ ‘The fellow with money to burn is alâ€" ways somebody‘s flame. Three scientists, two from America and the other from Britain, are reported to have spent several months in Corea trying to elucidate the wonders of that !strange land. | _ The wonders in question consist of a |hot mineral spring which is supposed to heal anything from a eut to a cancer; | two springs so arranged that when one lis full the other is empty; a cavern in the mountains in which a cold, piercing lwind rages perpetually; a large grove tnf pine trees which will sprout again directly they are cut down; a stone :which floats in space, and last, but not ‘least, a rock which gives forth great | heat, however cold the weather might be By reason of its hardness and a certain toughness, which permits it to be bored, cut, planed, or polishedâ€"qualities which generally belong to metals rather than ceramicsâ€"this substance is popularly called, by reason of its ingredients and peculiarities, "calcium steel," although it is in no sense a metal and has no relation whatever to steel. Not What Its Name Lcads One to Expect, Calcium steel, a superior French porâ€" celain, recently brought to notice, is not any form of steel or any other metal, but a ceramic product, made by baking in an oven, a paste made of finelyâ€"pulverized feldspar, sand and lime in certain speciâ€" fied proportions. These materials, being mixed with water and worked into a plastic paste resembling sculptor‘s clay, and then baked, produce a porcelain or earthenware of great hardness and duraâ€" bility, which resists corrosion by acids, of alteration by atmospheric influence, is a poor conductor of heat or electricity, has a specific gravity of 3%.3, and is in color a yellowish white, which may be varied to any desired tint by the addiâ€" tion of metallie oxides. Another Moving Mountain, Travers mountain in Switzerland has also stumped men of science. At the present moment it is crossing the valley in which it is situated at the rate of a few inches a day, and no one can disâ€" cover the reason of its stealthy crawling. Some time ago an immense wall of great thickness was erected around the mounâ€" tain to keep it in place, but it is beâ€" lieved that by and by the huge mass wilk push the wall down as easily as if it were built of paper. Although the engineers made every possible effort to discover the reason of its shifting, and to stop the advances, they failed. and a deep iake was formed which rose till the new dam, unable to bear the vast pressure of water, broke suddenly. The flood turned a rich valley fifty miles long into a waterâ€"sodden waste and doing damage to the extent of many thousands of pounds. Why do mountains travel? is a little puzzle that has stumped many great minds for many years. Several engineehs went to Bengal some years ago to find out why the Maimana mountain, near Gohna, had taken it into its head to move. This gigantic mass of earth siartâ€" ed on its travels in 1803 and in Septemâ€" ber of that year had completely damâ€" med the River Gange. Kix hours later the water bubbled over the top of the tube in a steady stream. At 8 o‘clock the next morning the water had fallen five feet in the tube. This rising and falling continued like clockâ€" work for so long as the tube was left in the bore. It certainly was not caused by the tide, for no tide in the world is regular, Scientists know this and they want to fathom the mystery of the reâ€" gular rising and falling of underground streams. A water well bored upor a plantation at Kealia, Hawaii, presented a new proâ€" blem to the world‘s scientists and they began to ask one another the question, "Does the earth breathe?" The artesian well at Kealia had a tube thirteen feet high surmounting the bore, and in this at 8 o‘clock in the morning the water stood at a height of eight feet. . In the Church of St. John, Pica, there is a stone that puzzles scientists even mort than does tie stone of Oberâ€"Amâ€" wergau. It is curiouslly marked with red. blue and yellow. and the lines repreâ€" sent an old man with beard and with a bell in his hand, seated beside a small stream. The stone fragmepnt is supposed to contain a picture of t.l(:' Redeemer. This is a question that is likely to puzâ€" zle mankind for so long a time as the stone exists. Dr. Garnett, who has examâ€" ined it, connot say more than that "t is a great natural curiosity, more curiâ€" ous than anything of the same nature with which I am acquainted, and the history of its discovery is more curious still." The stone was discovered by an Ameriâ€" can lady on Mount Kopfel, overlooking the village of Oberâ€"Ammergau, famous for the "Passion Play." Geological exâ€" perts declare that itwis natural and that ne tool has carved it. If this is true, says the inquisitive scientist, then how was the stone naturally marked? No plausible explanation has yet been offereg regarding the origin of the faâ€" mous stone of Oberâ€"Ammergau, which has a human face of sorrow marked by the hand of nature on its surface. Mystery of Hawaiian Well. CALCIUM "STEEL." En ht »